Supply chain attacks are extremely cheap/easy and very effective, so get prepared for more of them in the future.
It really bothers me, that many companies make billions utilizing open source without contributing money/employees etc. to secure/supply/maintain supply chains.
This one might not have been that cheap. The malicious code was added by a maintainer on the project for two years. That is some patience
Agreed. I am more speaking of ‘in general’, for example there was a supply chain attack on a widely used npm package by writing an email to the author of the npm package. There are other ‘cheap’ attacks like dependency confusion, typo squatting etc.
Mandatory XKCD: Dependency
actual link https://xkcd.com/2347/
Happy it doesn’t affect stable versions
Me: fixes exposure to vuln
Also me: grabs popcorn
This is going to be an interesting story once this all quiets down…
Gonna take a bit. The dudes been doing the releases for over a year, everything they touched is suspect now even if nothing earlier is known. Also some other associated accounts have been doing shady stuff too.
And that’s just one project that had a burnt out maintainer who welcomed some help from this guy. There are probably others. The hobby project becoming a core piece is a big issue.
Yeah, it looks like that little Jenga block from the xkcd meme was XZ and a bunch of infrastructure is gonna have issues because of it.
Gonna take a bit. The dudes been doing the releases for over a year, everything they touched is suspect now even if nothing earlier is known. Also some other associated accounts have been doing shady stuff too.
gonna take even a bit more now. Github closed the account and project making it really difficult to see their commits and merges and analyze them.
It’s also at https://git.tukaani.org.
Fixes exposure
It says F39 users are not affected. Are you running Rawhide/F40 Beta? p
Running Arch, so not really exposed, but still had a compromised version installed.
Did they intentionally not put the package name in the headline just to draw more clicks? Ffs
CVE-2024-3094 represents a serious security threat for Pokerogue Fedora Linux 40 and Rawhide users. Promptly updating your system and applying the necessary patches are crucial steps in mitigating this vulnerability.
